2. embarrassing [ a ] causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexationExamples:"the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles""it was mortifying to know he had heard every word"

Used in print:

(John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)

It bulks under a veil of thin , new grass , like some embarrassing fact of physicalness , and I think Mrs._Pastern set_out the statuary to soften its meaning .